Lusosex
Subtitle: gender and sexuality in the Portuguese-speaking world
By: Susan Canty Quinlan and Fernando Arenas, editors.
Contributors: Quinlan, Susan Canty, 1948-; Arenas, Fernando, 1963-
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Brazilian literature -- History and criticism.; Portuguese literature -- History and criticism.; African literature (Portuguese) -- History and criticism.; Sex in literature.; Sex in popular culture -- Portuguese-speaking countries.; Sex customs -- Portuguese-speaking countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tivira, the man with the broken butt : same-sex practices among Brazilian Indians / João Silvério Trevisan; title: Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos : speculations on sex and sexuality / John Gledson; title: Fernando Pessoa's gay heteronym? / Richard Zenith; title: Brazilian homoerotics : subjectivity and representation in the fiction of Gilberto Freyre / Jossianna Arroyo; title: Fictions of the impossible : Clarice Lispector, Lúcio Cardoso, and "Impossibilidade" / Severino João Albuquerque; title: Loving in the lands of Portugal : sex in women's fictions and the nationalist order / Ana Paula Ferreira; title: Not just for love, pleasure, or procreation : eroto-racial, socio-political, and mystic-mythical discourses of sexuality in Pepetela's A geraã̧o da utopia / Russell G. Hamilton; title: Border writing, post-coloniality, and critical difference in the works of Orlanda Amarílis / Phyllis Peres; title: "I was Evita," or Ecce femina : Lídia Jorge's The murmuring coast / Ronald W. Sousa; title: Supermen and Chiquita Bacana's daughters : transgendered voices in Brazilian popular music / César Braga-Pinto; title: Cross-dressing : Silviano Santiago's fictional performances / Susan Canty Quinlan; title: Small epiphanies in the night of the world : the writing of Caio Fernando Abreu / Fernando Arenas; title: The impossible body : queering the nation in modern Portuguese dance / André Torres Lepecki; title: Al Berto, in memoriam : the Luso queer principle / Mario César Lugarinho.